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Kjetil Andre Aamodt

What's Next?

Aamodt has no plans to slow down, telling reporters at the Olympics he felt he could continue to compete at world-class levels for at least the next four years. "I've made my mark in the Olympics, but I still feel like I have a lot to prove," he said. Besides, he said, with "only" 20 World Cup victories, he had a lot of catching up to do if he wanted to approach Stenmark's record of 86.

In February, 2003, Aamodt earned a record 12th world Alpine championship medal, finishing second, 49-hundredths of a second behind Michael Walchhofer of Austria. "He has not been as consistent a World Cup force as greats like Ingemar Stenmark, Alberto Tomba and [Hermann] Maier, but he has clearly mastered the art of peaking for the big race," Christopher Clarey of the New York Times wrote of Aamodt in February, 2003.

Chronology

1972 Born in Oslo, Norway
1989 Begins rookie season in World Cup competition
1998 Shut out of medals Winter Olympics at Nagano, Japan

Awards and Accomplishments

1990 Wins junior world championship
1991 Silver medal, super-G event, World Championships
1992 Gold medal, super-G, bronze in giant slalom, Olympics
1993 First place, giant slalom, World Cup
1993 First place, super-G, World Cup
1993 Third place, combined skiing and second place, overall, World Cup
1993 Gold medal, slalom and giant slalom and silver medal, combined skiing, World Championships
1994 First place, combined skiing, second place, giant slalom and first place, overall, World Cup
1994 Silver medal, downhill skiing and combined skiing, and bronze medal, super-G, Olympics
1996 Bronze medal, super-G, World Championships
1997 First place, combined skiing and second place, overall, World Cup
1997 Gold medal, combined skiing, World Championships
1998 Second place, combined skiing, World Cup
1999 First place, combined skiing and sec ond place, overall, World Cup
1999 Gold medal, combined skiing and bronze medal, downhill, World Championships
2000 First place, combined skiing and slalom, second place, overall, World Cup
2001 Third place, combined skiing, World Cup
2001 Gold medal, combined skiing and silver medal, giant slalom, World Championships
2002 Gold medal super-G event and combined skiing, Olympics; wins seventh overall medal, world record for Alpine skier
2003 12th world Alpine championship medal

Aamodt lives in Monaco, where he mostly stays out of the media spotlight, training in relative seclusion.

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